{"id":189386,"date":"2025-01-23T13:23:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T11:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-kenya-eases-visa-requirements-for-african-nationals-excludes-somalia-and-libya\/"},"modified":"2025-01-23T13:23:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T11:23:03","slug":"libya-kenya-eases-visa-requirements-for-african-nationals-excludes-somalia-and-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-kenya-eases-visa-requirements-for-african-nationals-excludes-somalia-and-libya\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya: Kenya Eases Visa Requirements for African Nationals, Excludes Somalia and Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Nairobi, Kenya \u2014 Kenya has relaxed its visa requirements for African nationals, except those from Somalia and Libya, to boost regional integration and tourism, officials announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">The Kenyan Cabinet confirmed that all African passport holders, excluding Somalis and Libyans, can now enter the country without needing a visa. This policy aligns with recent initiatives by countries like Ghana, which have opened their borders to African travelers to foster continental unity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Security&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501220397.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Libya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/libya\/\">Libya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi, Kenya \u2014 Kenya has relaxed its visa requirements for African nationals, except those from Somalia and Libya, to boost regional integration and tourism, officials announced Wednesday. The Kenyan Cabinet confirmed that all African passport holders, excluding Somalis and Libyans, can now enter the country without needing a visa. This policy aligns with recent initiatives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":189387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[258,256,4380,12621,11391,4688,4711,892,16316,257,6960,4690,254,1956],"class_list":["post-189386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-eases","tag-excludes","tag-kenya","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-nationals","tag-news","tag-requirements","tag-somalia","tag-south-africa-today","tag-visa"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}